Drukarnia shopping mall in Bydgoszcz

Drukarnia shopping mall
Polish: Drukarnia Mod domy

Drukarnia Shopping Mall in Bydgoszcz

View from Gdanska Street
Bydgoszcz
location within Poland
General information
Type Shopping Center
Location Bydgoszcz, Poland
Address Jagiellońska Street 1
Coordinates 53°7′29″N 18°0′12″E / 53.12472°N 18.00333°E / 53.12472; 18.00333
Opened 30 November 2007
Design and construction
Architecture firm JSK Architects
Other information
Parking 3 levels
Website
drukarniadommody.pl
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Printing machine cir. 1907 - Picture from "Industrie und Gewerbe in Bromberg"
Printing House "Grunauer" in 1912 after expansion

Drukarnia Dom Mody is a shopping mall in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Location

The Drukarnia shopping centre is located between Gdańska Street and Jagiellońska street in downtown district of Bydgoszcz, Poland.

History

The site has housed printing factories, from the 19th century till 2005.

Prussian period

The first printing house was established by Andreas Friedrich Gruenauer (1764-1829) on October 6, 1806. Its first location was Poznanski Street 35, Bydgoszcz. In 1814, needing to expand production into different types of printed journals, the owner purchased a portion of a monastery garden within the congregation of the Poor Clares in Bydgoszcz. From there, he began construction of a modernized printing house. Launched in May 1815, this building occupied the site where the shopping mall stands today. The neoclassical building still stands on Jagiellońska street, close to the Church of the Poor Clares where printing continuously operated until 2005.[1]

Grünauer's print house issued a range of official documents, from Bydgoszcz's first newspaper, to the 1807 Constitution of the Duchy of Warsaw. Railway timetables were also printed here since 1850.[1]

Advertisement for Gruenauer's Print house - ca 1890

The plant was modernized in the 19th century: between 1845 and 1874 a lithography section emerged, and by 1875 a steam engine powered the factory. In 1899-1900 a three-story factory building was added on the northern side, designed mainly for the bookbinding department. It was built with a gaslight system.

The printing house employed 75 people in 1831, 136 in 1896 and reached 230 employees just before World War I.[2] Despite many ownership changes, the plant was still called Printing House Gruenauer in 1920 (German: Grunauerische Buchdruckerei).

Interwar period

In 1918, the house changed its name to Printing Plant Institute Polish: Zakłady Graficzne w Bydgoszczy-Library of Poland (Polish: Zakłady Graficzne Instytutu Wydawniczego). It was the largest and most modern printing plant in Bydgoszcz and one of the largest in Poland. In 1920, the plant was bought by Polish: Wladyslaw Kościelski (1886-1933). New owner's goal was to issue textbooks, scholarly works, fiction, Polish and foreign scientific journals, art reproductions, maps, and other publications. After the death of Władysław Kościelski, Henryk Leon Strasburger directed the factory.[1]

In the years 1921-1924 and 1935-1939, the printing house developed new areas of competence, such as offset printing, zincography, rotogravure, and became self-sufficient in equipment repair. This was made possible, among other things, by the acquisition in 1928 of a printing press housed in building adjacent to Bydgoszcz's jail facility at Parkowa street.[2] In 1936, the printing facility had more than 200 machines and employed around 280 people, which represented more than 60% of the employees of the printing industry in the former Pomeranian province. In 1939, the number of employees increased to more than 600 people.[1]

World War II

During the occupation, German troops destroyed 44 machines, and claimed over 20 of the most valuable ones. They liquidated the rotogravure department, thus limiting printing activity to newspapers and ephemera publishing.[1] After the war, a commemorative brass plaque was placed on the printing house's Gdanska street side: it mentions the names of Bydgoszcz printers, booksellers, librarians and journalists murdered by the Nazis during World War II.[3]

Post-war period

In early January 1945, after the liberation of Bydgoszcz, the facility provided military printing, and published the first new city newspapers: Wiadomości Bydgoskich (Messages of Bydgoszcz), Ziemi Pomorskiej (Land of the Pomerania) and Ilustrowany Kurier Polski (Illustrated Mail of Poland). At the same time it started to issue its first textbooks, teaching aids, maps and other school documents. Its first color manual was published in 1949.[4] The facility had major expansions in 1947-1951 and 1957-1962. At that point, the print house was the largest one in Poland for textbooks and educational magazines. Approximately 20 million books and teaching aids were issued every year: more than half of all Polish-printed textbooks.[1] Even in the 1980s, these printing plants provided over 40% of national production of textbooks (18 million units per year).

Despite further modernizations of the print house in the late 1980s and 1990s, social and economic changes in Poland reduced production, and the company faced fierce market competition. In 1993-1995, employment decreased by 20% to 600 people. In 2001, the company was still one of the largest printing facilities in Poland (130 employees). In the following years, the growth of global competition in the printing industry worsened its financial situation.[1]

In May 2005, the building at Jagiellońska street was bought by Opus 2 Investment Company, which built, in 2006-2007, the shopping mall Drukarnia' at this location '. The opening of the mall took place on 30 November 2007. Originally called "Astoria" it was renamed to "Drukarnia", in honor of the history of the site.

Early 2016, the complex has been bought by ASK Consulting, which decided to transform the building into a business center, Bydgoskie Centrum Finansowe.[5]

Features

The centre houses shops, galleries and multi-level indoor parking. Inside are an ellipse-shaped escalator, two panoramic lifts, and shops, including restaurants and a pastry shop. By the Gdanska street entrance there is a town square, which hosts occasional events and exhibitions.

Drukarnia houses over 50 internationally branded shops - clothing, jewelry, home furnishings, cafes, and a fitness club. The lowest floor is a Tesco supermarket.

Specifications:

Gallery

See also

External links

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Umiński, Janusz (2010). Zakłady graficzne. Kalendarz Bydgoski. Bydgoszcz: Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy.
  2. 1 2 Rak, Mieczysław (1971). 150-lecie Zakładów Graficznych w Bydgoszczy. In. Kronika Bydgoska II. Bydgoszcz: Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy.
  3. ↑ {{cite web |url=}http://www.pomorska.pl/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080228/ALBUMY01/637510850 |title=Unikatowe zdjęcia drukarzy |last=Wasącz |first=Małgorzata |date=27 February 2008 |website=pomorska.pl |publisher=Gazeta Pomorska |access-date=3 Dcember 2016 |quote=}
  4. ↑ Długosz, Jerzy (1992). Zakłady Graficzne im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej. Kalendarz Bydgoski. Bydgoszcz: Towarzystwo Miłośników Miasta Bydgoszczy.
  5. ↑ Leszczyńska, Marta (28 November 2015). "Wielkie zmiany w centrum. Drukarnia bez mody, ale z finansami". bydgoszcz.wyborcza.pl. bydgoszcz.wyborcza. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
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